Impulse-reliant confectioners should be wary of emerging technology that could spell the end for in-store checkouts as we know them, says a retail expert.
A study backed by Wrigley has found that the confectionery-laden checkout zone is one of the highest areas for sales in stores, but is still underexploited by many retailers.
The majority of UK consumers who admit to regularly buying confectionery in-store do not purchase confectionery online, according to research by Kantar Media, which says confectionery has huge growth prospects on the web.
Major Russian retailers are using bargaining power to ensure heavy private label presence on shelves – hitting smaller domestic brands, Euromonitor says.
A company making handmade fudge is predicting a 40% to 60% rise in turnover over each of the next two years as high-end retailers increasingly seek to stock its products.
UK firm Fudge Kitchen believes it has spotted a gap in the market for premium fudge and has invested in a new production facility and product development to break out of the category’s image as a cheap gift.
Supermarket service stations are gaining ground on corner shops, and baked staples now losing out to chocolate and confectionery, according to new research from Australia.
Confectionery manufacturers must use electronic communications and ensure in-store displays are “show stoppers” as consumers make the shift to online shopping, according to the head of a US supermarket.
Private label chocolate is no longer a cheap replica of branded products and regular audits from supermarkets are helping quality grow, according to the CEO of UK private label chocolatier Ashbury Chocolates.
UK premium chocolate firm Thorntons has restored sales growth in its second quarter trading update as its focus shift from own-stores to commercial sales pays dividends.
Bristol couple Ian and Ruth Yard sold their food retail outlet and invested the £250,000 in setting up their first factory manufacturing Ooh! Chocolata chocolate bars.
Lidl UK is trialing replacing confectionery at checkouts with fresh fruit and juices, but branded goods won’t be affected since it was only stocking own-label candy at its check-outs anyway.
Czech confectioner POEX has increased its pack capacity by 88% by shifting from linear weighers and volumetric fillers to an x-ray and check weigher combination from Ishida, it claims.
Soaring resin prices, falling demand in sectors such as confectionery, along with almost US$40m costs related to plant closures and job cuts saw fourth quarter operating profits in flexible packaging slump by 37% at the end of what Bemis called a “challenging”...
Nordic confectioner Cloetta has seen a slight improvement in profits compared to the same quarter last year driven by travel trade sales in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Bulgaria's leading home-grown confectionery maker, Pobeda, has completed the installation of two new production lines that will boost its output by a third, the company said this week.
Thorntons chief executive Jonathan Hart has described the firm’s 2010/11 trading year as “one of the toughest consumer spending environments we have experienced”.
In a bid to stave off the competition from Nestle and other confectionery giants, Russian biscuit, cake and jelly maker Slavyanka has engaged a UK agency to revitalize its packaging and get more shelf space for its brands.
Former Thorntons chairman Peter Thornton says the firm's current woes are due to an unduly large shop chain, poorer product quality and "extremely bad" retail marketing.
UK supermarket chain, Marks & Spencer, said its entire Swiss chocolate range will now feature a corn starch-based Plantic tray to hold the chocolates, while the outer-box, it added, is made from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified cardboard.
An innovative scheme involving the return of dividends to investors in batches of premium chocolate has raised £3.7m for UK company Hotel Chocolat’s facility and retail outlet expansion plans.
UK chocolate maker and retailer, Thorntons, should renegotiate on own shop leases in order to claw back some lost profits, claims an analyst as the group issues another pre-tax profit warning and its CEO steps down.
Consumers are attracted to innovative packaging designs but are put off if they prove difficult to open or close, according to studies from Helsinki University commissioned by M-real Consumer Packaging.
Appealing to consumers’ five senses through innovative packaging techniques can result in increased brand loyalty and greater impact at point of sale, and it is a key driver in confectionery packaging, according to the organisers of the 2010 Pro Sweets...
Calls by town hall chiefs to force UK supermarkets to publish packaging statistics have been dismissed as a publicity stunt by an industry body, which said retailers already use the minimum of packing material.
The trend towards low-cost food packaging over the past two years, driven by global recession and volatile energy prices, is the main finding of a new study conducted by UK-based analysts Canadean.
Stand-up bags are a way to increase the expose of sugar confectionery in the impulse-driven travel retail market, according to Storck Travel Retail, which is re-launching three of its brands in new packaging this summer.
Consumers at various levels of income are increasingly turning to lower cost ‘dollar stores’ to appease their sweet tooth, according to new US-based research suggesting candy and snacks are a major focus for budgeting buyers.
A project that optimises the use of a single packaging material - corrugated board - and facilitates recycling has been chosen as the winner of SCA Packaging’s ‘Design Challenge’
Germany's confectionery trade saw a boost in turnover in 2008 across all product segments, but higher raw material and energy costs ate into potential gains.
Nestle International Travel Retail (NITR) is concentrating on expanding its range of confectionery and increase the frequency of its product launches in order to profit from its fastest-growing product sectors.
French supermarket Leclerc has announced that it plans to withdraw
thirteen makes of confectionery from counters near the checkouts,
in a move aimed at tackling the growing problem of child obesity.
A new turnkey packaging system designed as a complete system for
wafer products has been developed by European firms SPS and CAMA
who joined forces to meet demand in the market.
UK sweet manufacturers could soon see a slump in retailer sales
following talks between the Department of Health and industry
bodies to wean consumers away from convenience shop confectionery.
Cargill has indicated that it may take its Regenasure glucosamine
chondroitin ingredient into functional beverages - yet it has
emerged that another company's foray into the market has not proved
positive, raising questions as...
Nestle has reason to believe that small metal particles may be
present in two batches of it's Kit Kash promotional KitKats, sold
in UK retailer Tesco, resulting in a product recall.
